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Brynn Evans

Share contact info, social graph via Google Profiles - 0 views

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social_search Google profiles contact connect

shared by Brynn Evans on 17 Jan 09 - Snapshot
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    Brynn Evans on 17 Jan 09
     
    The first steps to getting social search functionality in Google. Will be interesting to see where this goes.
Brynn Evans

Augmented Social Cognition: CSCW2008 Paper on "Towards a Model of Understanding Social Sear... - 0 views

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parc research search social survey

shared by Brynn Evans on 03 Oct 08 - Snapshot
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    Brynn Evans on 03 Oct 08
     
    A teaser for our paper on social search (written by Ed Chi).
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The social web: All about the small stuff - 0 views

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lifestream social technology web

shared by Brynn Evans on 23 Sep 08 - Snapshot
  • I'd argue that a big part of it is the small details that you know about each other.
  • ie they saw two nights before. Closeness often comes from knowing the small things, not just the big things. Distance makes knowing those small things harder. When you live together, either with your family or your friends, knowing the small things is easy. They get con
  • The promise of the social web is about making it easy to share the small stuff -
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  • Social features will be embedded and around and through all variety of spaces and places on the web
  • The web will connect people to the small moments that in many ways matter most.
  • We're just now starting to navigate all the intersections between sociology and engineering on the web
  • Brynn Evans
    Brynn Evans on 23 Sep 08
     
    From the Google blog: they argue that the benefit of the social web and social technologies is that people are able to stay close to friends because they are aware of the small events going on daily in their lives.
Brynn Evans

The Dunbar Number as a Limit to Group Sizes - 0 views

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shared by Brynn Evans on 08 Sep 08 - Snapshot
  • ... there is a cognitive limit to the number of individuals with whom any one person can maintain stable relationships, that this limit is a direct function of relative neocortex size, and that this in turn limits group size ... the limit imposed by neocortical processing capacity is simply on the number of individuals with whom a stable inter-personal relationship can be maintained.
  • 147.8 is the "mean group size" for humans
  • community size of 150 will not be a mean for a community unless it is highly incentivized to remain together
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  • Dunbar's theory is that this 42% number would be true for humans if humans had not invented language, a "cheap" form of social grooming
  • Dunbar's Number acting as a limit rather than a mean.
  • WikiPedia
  • This all leads me to hypothesize that the optimal size for active group members for creative and technical groups -- as opposed to exclusively survival-oriented groups, such as villages -- hovers somewhere between 25-80, but is best around 45-50.
  • that the optimal size for active group members for creative and technical groups -- as opposed to exclusively survival-oriented groups, such as villages -- hovers somewhere between 25-80, but is
  • Dunbar] found that the MAXIMUM number of people that a person could keep up with socially at any given time, gossip maintenance, was 150
  • but that they only keep tabs on 150 people max at any given point
  • Brynn Evans
    Brynn Evans on 08 Sep 08
     
    This is a good write up on a number of things I've been thinking about related to Dunbar's number and online social network size.
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